Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya (born on March 10, 1950 in Şanlıurfa, Turkey) was a high ranked Turkish judge and currently the Chief Public Prosecutor of the High Court of Appeals of Turkey.

[edit] Justice and Development Party closure case

As the highest ranked Public Prosecutor of Turkey, Yalçınkaya brought charges against the Justice and Development Party (AKP) on March 14, 2008 to the Constitutional Court of Turkey, demanding that the party be closed and its 71 officials barred from politics for five years.^[1] Those officials include the current president Abdullah Gül and the prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. The court decided not to close the party, but imposed a financial penalty.^[2]

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[edit] External links

• Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya, High Court of Appeals. (Turkish)

	Justices of the High Court of Appeals of Turkey
Osman Arslan | Nuri Ok | Osman Şirin | Zeki Akar | Abdurrahman Yalçınkaya | Uğur İbrahimhakkıoğlu

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